Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 356
rini Palace for severalcenturies, till it was purchased by the Duke of Portland, afterwhose death it was placed in the British Museum. After havingbeen broken by the hand of a barbarian, it has fortunately beenrestored satisfactorily. Many reproductions of this vase in chinaand terra-cotta have… … S^]viff.^py^jvij;jJ7- Many arts and inventions were in common use in Egypt forcenturies before they are generally supposed to have been known;and we are now and then as much surprised to find that certainthings were old 3,000 years ago, as the Egyptians would be if theycould hear us talk of them as…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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